Wednesday, November 12, 2014

What Does Game-based Learning Offer Higher Education?

Higher education needs to begin to seriously consider gaming not only as an area of inquiry, but also as a means for engaging students and pushing learning beyond its current state.

Effective use of gaming will help to reinvent the college experience in a way that makes its value to the individual and society unassailable. According to McGonigal, there are four ways in which game play aligns nicely with solving the world’s problems.